Friday, February 27, 2009

Sin of the Week: LUST

Kay of Perhaps We Learn Something has a brand new meme called Sin of the Week. The first sinis Lust. Oh sure she would pick THAT one!

I assume we all know what the sin of lust is. You remember Jimmy Carter said he lusted in his heart which according to him was NOT a sin. Lusting in your heart, that is. The suggestion is that if you don't DO anything, it's not a sin.

If you believe that then you don't know the Catholic Church and its teachings. The Catholic Church teaches that if you think about, you know, boinking someone who isn't your husband or wife, you've committed a sin. Yeah, that's true!

It's called a sin of thought. You don't even get to enjoy yourself and BAM! you're on your way to hell.

The painting below shows what LUST looks like.

Allegory of Gluttony and Lust

It is a Hieronymus Bosch painting made sometime between 1490 and 1500. It is currently in the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. In this painting there's more about Gluttony than Lust.

To tell the truth I can't tell what the heck they're doing in the painting above

Bosch did another painting called The Garden of Earthly Delights.

If you look carefully (or embiggen to see better) there's LOTS of LUSTY things going on:

Dang Mary, you get invited to all the best parties don't you? There's never anything like that going on around here!

You reminded me of a bit by the late George Carlin where he says, "You had to waaaanna... In fact 'wanna' was a sin all by itself. It was a sin to wanna feel up Ellen, it was a sin to plan to feel up Ellen, it was a sin to find a place to feel up Ellen, it was a sin to take Ellen to the place to feel her up, it was a sin to try to feel her up, and it was a sin to feel her up. There were six sins in one feel man!"